Chatham

Chatham is located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in the vicinity of the Bridgetown community of Northampton County. The house is notable as an excellent example of the Federal […]

Brown Grove Rural Historic District

The Brown Grove Rural Historic District is a historically African American community located south of the Town of Ashland. The district’s boundaries encompass two discontiguous areas near the geographic center […]

St. John’s United Holy Church of America, Inc.

St. Johns United Holy Church of America, Inc., built in two phases between 1931 and 1932 in Richmond’s Fairfield neighborhood, is associated with one of the oldest African American Pentecostal […]

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church

The original main block sanctuary of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, near Gainesville in Prince William County, dates to 1928 and replaced an 1889 church building. That earlier building arose after […]

Schoolfield Historic District

The roughly 512-acre Schoolfield Historic District encompasses the remaining buildings associated with the mill village of Schoolfield, an independent company town the textile giant Dan River Mills developed southwest of […]

Deering Hall

Deering Hall was the town hall for the town of Broadway in Rockingham County from around 1890, when constructed, until 1933, when the town leased it to the Broadway Motor […]

Courtland Historic District

Beginning as a cluster of courthouse buildings in 1752 along the north side of the Nottoway River, the Courtland Historic District forms the corer of the seat of Southampton County. […]

Washington School

Washington School in Rappahannock County was constructed around 1923 as a two-teacher school. Of the Rosenwald Schools built in 79 localities in Virginia, about 50 percent were similar to the […]

St. George’s Episcopal Church

St. George’s Episcopal Church was constructed in 1849. It was the third church building erected on a lot originally designated for a church on a plat of Fredericksburg that the […]